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Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche & Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by James McFarland (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The first extended exploration of the relationship between the Weimar-era revolutionary cultural critic and the radical philosopher.
 
In five chapters, Constellation presents the changing figure of Friedrich Nietzsche as Walter Benjamin encountered him: an inspiration to his student activism, an authority for his skeptical philology, a manifestation of his philosophical nihilism, a companion in his political exile, and ultimately a subversive collaborator in his efforts to think beyond the hopeless temporality—new and always the same—of the present moment in history.
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    978-0823263097
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    1st
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    Modern Language Initiative
  5. Publication date
    December 31, 2012
  6. Language
    English
  7. File size
    2679 KB
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“Not only does McFarland evince himself as an original and compelling interpreter of Nietzsche and Benjamin. He strings key passages together in such a way that his exegetical performance fans out toward both authors, configuring them in an inexorable interface of shared interpretation and critique.”---―Henry Sussman, Yale University

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“Not only does McFarland evince himself as an original and compelling interpreter of Nietzsche and Benjamin. He strings key passages together in such a way that his exegetical performance fans out toward both authors, configuring them in an inexorable interface of shared interpretation and critique.”---―Henry Sussman, Yale University

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00AOLT3DA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Modern Language Initiative; 1st edition (December 31, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 31, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2679 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 342 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Constellation" is stellar
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2015
In my view, not only the best book (written in English) on Benjamin AND Nietzsche but also on Nietzsche or Benjamin in the last, say 30 years; it would be shame if this volume simply receded in the onrush of appearing new scholarship. McFarland's is the only book I know of that is equal in conceptual speed to the thought of his subjects; mimetic in that tense, the writing is incisive, suggestive, eloquent, a McFarland sentence is not a freight car carrying a load of thought but, in its immediate complexity and richness, conveys the gestation-arrival of thought itself.This book should be required reading for anyone in the humanities concerned with the impact of one major figure on another ( for instance Shakespeare on Donne) since McFarland demonstrates a conceptual physics that is far more revealing than than of simple precedential influence, configuring a dimension of ( in Henry Sussman's words) " inexorable interfaces of shared interpretation and critique, "a now-time" of thoughtful interrelationship. A wonderfully stimulating and illuminating volume. (And may I add, I am not an acquaintance or associate of the author.)
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Le livre est arrivé en bon état. Par rapport au contenu, il s'agit d'une analyse comparative entre les deux auteurs qui est moins philosophique que prevu. Mais ce n'est que mon opinion.
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